Eickelberg

INFORMATION

FontID: 08834EIC
Church/Chapel: Dorfkirche Eickelberg
Country Name: Germany
Location: Güstrow, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern
Directions to Site: [site not located]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten (Visby type - round bowl)
Described in Drake (2002: 178, 183) as a baptismal font of the Paradise group (Visby type - round bowl) made of Gotlandic limestone. Identified in Berggren (2002: 150 fn17) as a baptismal font made of Gotlandic limestone [NB: Berggren notes earlier erroneous identifications of its material as granite]

COORDINATES

UTM: 32U 685650 5962113

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Gotlandic limestone)
Font Shape: chalice-shaped -- round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Berggren, Lars, "The Export of Limestone and Limestone Fonts from Gotland during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", 2002
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002